Here are a few more patterns I worked on today. I've been experimenting with working with shape too, not just the coloured in lines, esp since there's no ability to vary line width. I also have some illustrations cooking

i know im late but i love the blue pattern that shows the maiden, mother, and the crone i would love to use that for a apron or summer dress :3 and teh little geisha pattern would be absolutly adorable for a kids kimono

@Nunu I wanted to draw polgara as something not stereotype medieval look because tbh David Edding's is stereotyped enough XD

@Kiba Thanks I have more patterns I've yet to put here, I'll get round to it sometime... XD

AAnd for today.

Captain Athena Davies from my webcomic Hairpin (Released September 14th ^^)
I started this as a reference piece for when she's in the comic, for the colours and the styling etc, but got a bit carried away so now I shall show you guys
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She requested one of her OCs, Victoria, in a kind of wintery setting. I gathered from references Victoria is something to do with Harry Potter, and so I had some fun with the owl post and wizards robes.

I took the opportunity to have a little illustration fun with the snow and the colours (trying to avoid typical icy colours) and I hope it turned out well

@mochikun
Colour was my aim for 2012, to learn to use it better over the year. I had found I had the ability to draw but my work was lacking colour wise, and so I sought to change it. I am quite content with the outcomes. I now need a new goal for 2013! XD

I started almost from scratch and started collecting images I liked purely because the colours were nice, and making special effort to use their colours in my next image. As the year went on I found that choosing colours became much more natural to me, but I kept admiring and 'stealing' colour schemes from images.

It's the only way really to learn, the same way we learn anatomy by looking we learn colours by looking.

I also spent a while on sites like Colour Lovers and Design Seeds which isolate out colour schemes and you begin to get a sense of which colour schemes you love and how to pair colours to create a feel you want etc.

And thanks for the comment on the sketch I hated the blue/teal/aqua at first paired with the red but then I got the balance right and it just popped and now I'm like "yeah first instincts should be stuck to" XD

The Theme was to draw a Character Design based on a Flower, this is the Yellow Archangel (Lamiastrum sp)

I haven’t drawn anything Manga/Anime style in years, and for fun I thought the M/A rep contest would be great to get back in touch with my Manga roots. The original goal was to pull on more of the visual tropes that make Manga so destinctive, and make the piece that my 14 year old self had always wanted to make but didn’t have the skills for yet.
However as goes, along the way I got distracted and some of the tropes were making me cringe, (and I just couldn’t make her face so flat and be happy) so I ended up making a fusion between what my 14 year old self wanted and my 24 year old self. I’m fairly happy with something that was initially meant to be just a doodle but ended up in a far crazier realm than anticipated.